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Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-03-26
Rolling Mill Men.

PaILl.vssBURs, n. j, March PA com
miStee Egosn the Amalganated association
yesterday waved upoi Mr. a. L. Howell,
manage OF tae Delaware rolling mill, de-
manllng ca discharge Vi hand who, dur
isIss me progress OF d strike at another mill a
Short tllsie since, had aided the bosses The
Commute declare that IL the man was not
discaargsl Immediately they would haul
their fire$ aid quit WORK. AR Howell iu-
formed Jnein tpitt he would consider the
matter and give aecision later in the day.
Before Quitting time the manager ordered
tae pudalers not to char Sc their fires. The
100 men,
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-03-26
Granted An Advance.

BETHLEHEM, Pa, March "a The en-
ployes Of the Lehigh Zinc company have
been notified that they have been granted an
advance of 10 per cent in wages, to date
from March /. The advance had rot been
asked for, and was not expected The conn
pany employs 100 men. The employees Of the
an increase of 10 per cent.
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-03-26
Lockout Expected.

ToRoNTo, March "a There is every indi-
cation Of big lockout in the building trade
here about May i, when agreements entered
into last year regarding wages will expire.
Bricklayers and plastsrers have already I'M
Employers who are thoroughly organized
den and.
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-03-26
the Propeller Northerner sunk.

BUFFALO, II. III, March. "A Capt, J. J.
Rarion. Of this city, has received a dispatch
from KelIy's Island, saying that the pro-
peller Ndrthelner, sank again early this
morning. She had lately been raised The
propeller took fire last fan and burned to the
water edge. Additional pasaps win be put
to WORK on her at once
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-03-26
Blacklisted.

YouNGsTowN, O.. March "a, A number
II the discharged New FORK, Pennsylvania
81 Ohio strikers applied to other roads for
positions, but +yers told they cold not be en-
,,loyed, as they were blacklissed The men
intend bringing suits for damages against
the New York, Pennsylvania g. Ohio com
pany.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-08-11

You don't see more than one in Florence.
And for open immortality, Florence is the
worst ever saw, and pictures and other ar
ticles are offered for sale in the piazzas and
stores which Anthony Comstock and the po-
lice would put an end to in New York in IF.
teen minutes.
believe have had some unlind things t
say of the old masters, which no doubt tn
old masters would take much to heart if the.
were alive and could read my able animal
versions upon their efforts, but of one wan
to speak in praise only That one is Giovan-
nj Battista Salvi, called Sassoferrato after
his birthplace. One day in the National gal
lery in London saw the face of woman
looking out from the canvas with such life
likeness, such sweetness, that involuntarily
stopped before it. The drapery of blue and
white was in perfect harmony with the
gentleness of the face, and every line and
fold were living grace. didn't know Art,
but knew this appeal in color to the heart,
and to the sense of the beautiful, and l forgot
all the gallery in this one picture My cata'
logue told me it was "The Madonna in
Prayer,n and the artist was Sassoferrato
Since that day have been seeking for Sasso-
ferratos and whenever l find one l am
never disappointed. There may be same
ness in his work wearisome to many, but to
me there is in it beautiful peace and rest,
which, while it may not be high art, is some
thing higher, and am content to find in
this artist pleasure no other has afforded.
in this connection l am free to confess
never heard of SaSsoferrato until l saw his
name in the catalogue Of the National gal
lery that day in London. MARY JANE.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-08-11

(the mule often commences to swell as well
as grunt and groan and whine as if he were
in great suffering, and this he keeps up dur
ing the whole performance, of which the
principal and to the mule the desired
result is that he collapses ten min
utes after starting on his days journey,
and the process must be gone over again
and sometimes again, and then even
again! We had a "yaller mule" in our train
going over to Washoe, that was always med
itating and carrying out some kind of vii
lainy If he saw low, overhanging rock he
went for it in order that his load might bang
against it ard if possible be brushed off. If
he saw two trees growing near together and
at distance suited to his diabolical purpose,
he went for them, to the end that the load
hanging over his sides might be caught be-
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-08-11

tween them and he be thus "shucled' of it.
He objected to crossing a perfectly sound
bridge over Niagara creek. The whole COM
pany were obliged to precipitate themselves
upon him in the proportion of two men TO
leg and carry him over bodily. Among his
supporters was Judge Cavis, on his way to
open the United States district court in
Mono county, who was congratulated after
the passage of the creek on bringing such
successful "power of attorney" to bear ON
that yallcr mule. After getting him over,
his driver, taking a club, belabored him in
sections, proceeding to which he seemed so
accustomed and received, apparently, with
so little emotion that the man at last threw
his stick away, exclaiming in discouraged
tones, "He'll just stand and take it and take
it all dayW
Two days afterward he rolled down the
steepest hillside he could find, going over and
over, pack and all, like a big dry goods
box. At tine bottom he lay quiet, easy
and uninjuIed till we went down and I'M
strapped him. We were half the afternoon
getting the load up to the trail again, for to
pack and lead him up to it was impossible,
We were another half day Strengthening out
Gus bent and banged tin coffee pots and other
camp cooking utensils which formed part OF
his load, and which lie had in his descent
rolled, pressed and twisted into uncouth and
announcement FORMS That he planned all this
in his mind and so allowed himself to tumble
down am more than half disposed to be-
lieve, for a mule has mind Of his own, and
can scheme and plan and remember injuries,
since it is an old saying among mule
drivers that one of these beasts will wait
seven years to get good chance to kick
man he's down on" And one more strange
and peculiar thing about the mule-no mat
ter how well you feed or how rich the food
you give him, when in camp he's unpacked
at night, he will first lay down and roll and
grunt in the luxury and ease of relief from
his heavy load, and the next thing he does is
to MUNICH and chew and swallow mouthfuls
Of the dead, dry and rotten little twigs, dead
leaves, bark or such trash as he finds lying
about. The old hands say he must have this
stuff, that it serves some useful purpose in his
digestive economy known only to himself
and that if he can't get it he'll fall away IL
flesh and even die. PRENTICE MILFORD.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-08-11
APertlous reinforcement.

Topostpone, when the duty for immediate
action is clear, is always unwise. Especially
is it SO when increasing i'll health calls for
resort to medication. Diseases of the kid
news and bladder are often of swift growth
always of fatal tendency if not combatted at
the outset. We have all-even those of us
who are not remarkably well instructed
heard something of the danger attending
Bright IS disease, diabetes and other diseases
of the kidneys or bladder Let no one be
foolhardy enough, to procrastinate if he per-
ceives the renal organs to be inactive. Hos
tetter's Stomach Bitters are peculiarly adapt
ed to overcome this inaction, to sufficiently
stimulate, without exciting the kidneys and
bladder. Infinitely is this diuretic to be pre-
ferred to the impure and fiery stimulants OF
persons with tendency to renal troubles.
They are likewise Incompatible for dys-
pepsia, debility, fever and ague, and bilious
ness,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-08-11
THE LATE URIEL CROKER.
The Publisher of the First Book Printed
from Stereotype Plates in America.
rc,aoo;oI Corraepondance

The PuDl1Sner OI Jho EiE5D DoO'h A@ANSoN
from Stereotype Plates in America.
Especial Correspondence
BOSTON, Aug 1.-Uriel Crocker, probably
the Oldest publisher in America, whose name
was long familiar to every reader of religious
and educational literature, died at Cohassett
Mass, recently, aged 81 years The firm of
Croker g. Brewster was in existence sixty
nine years counting from the original firm
in which Mr.. Armstrong was the principal,
and was only dissolved by the death of the
senior partner. 1t is doubted if any parallel
case can be found in America.
Uriel Croker was native of Marblehead,
and when he was Is years old, i'll 1911, his
father apprenticed him to Samuel Arm
strong, printer, at SO Cornhill street, Boston.
Two months later Osmya Brewster entered
the same office; and on Nov. l, 1918, Mr..
Armstrong took the two young men into
partnership. In 1926 be retired and for sixty
two years Croker & Brewster have re-
manned partners, their premises having been
the same for fifty eight years and their firm
the only book selling and publishing estab-
lishment in Boston that weathered the finan-
cial storms of 1887 and 1857. They estab-
lished branch firm in New York, but dis
posed of it to Jonathan Leavitt and Daniel
A. Appleton, which was the origin of the
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-08-11
Special Correspondence

t'PSNis'i
NANTUCKET, Mass, Aug My first job
in the California mines was that of beef
packer to the miners in the Tuolumne.
That was eight years after the crush of
40" Times were still good. Laborers'
wages were "a per day. A carpenter got
S.. Any man who could saw board i'll two
called himself a carpenter.
l packed my beef, already cut in steaks
and roasting pieces, in panniers slung over
mustangs back. 1t was pretty tough beef
some of it, think, cut from bulls who had
fought in the Mexican arenas ever since the
invasion of Cortes. We never bothered in
cutting up a quarter Of beef about "porter-
house steaks or "sirloins." We sliced it off
from the neck to the rump as you would
slice potato for frying. Our purchasers
got the sirloin and porterhouse all the same,
somewhere in their meat. Most OF the miners
were away at their work when l left the
meat at their cabins. l left it in the
covered game safes, which were suspended by
a cord from the tree, usually near or shadow
ing the mansion. But in the summer you
could safely leave a steak hanging out Of
doors for days and it would not decay. The
suns heat and perfectly dry air soon covered
it with a kind of film, skin like parchment
So it would get dryer and dryer, until the
whole piece was "jerked," or sun cured.
Only the yellow jackets, a species of wasp,
would when the meat was fresh, bore holes
in it, cut the meat out in little bits with soma
manner Of sharp apparatus they have, roll
this meat up in balls twice as big as buckshot
and in this shape fly away with it.
One day while on the dusty trail my mus
tang ran away with full pannier load. He
was active with his heels, and every time he
kicked up a red steak flew into the air, glow
ing in the sunshine, and thereafter falling
flop in the red powdery dust Irregular brick
dust which makes all over the mines in the dry
season.. ran after the animal, crying
"Whoa!" gathering up steak after steak as l
found them, and, when the load became too
heavy to carry, depositing them in little
piles. When the mustang had kicked out all
the meat he stopped and seemed satisfied.
went back with him, gathered up my heaps
of dust covered steaks, loaded up again, went
down the long half mile descent
to the river and washed them in
its current, muddy with the myriad
tons of red mud sluiced in it by thousands of
up country miners twenty, thirty, forty
miles away Then, as usual, left the meat
grit, mud and all, for the "boys" to get away
with as best they might. My employer had
4 no use for my services about week after.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-08-11

'Where are you going, my pretty, pretty maidF"
s'To the ice cream parlor sir" she said.
.'llay 90 long, my pretty, pretty maidf"
"You can, sir If you'll foot the bill, y she SAID
'How many plates canst eat, my pretty pretty
maidr
"Four is about my SIZE" she softly said.
"Don't you ever get tired, my pretty, pretty
maidT'
.Tm not built that way, please, sir" she said
orve just felt in my pockets, my pretty, pretty
maid"
sand what do you find there, sirf" she said.
'Nought but button, my pretty, pretty maid
''I'll see you later, sir, i" said
"Can see you home, my pretty, pretty maid"
"If you'll chance the bulldog, sir" she said.
"Will the bulldog bite, my pretty, pretty haiuf
81 should blush to murmur, 81" she said.
We parted.
M. ]. Donnelly in st. Paul Globe.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-08-11
Smith and the Editor.

Upon certain occasion, as the editor Of
The Weekly Jabwock sat in his sanctum, a
Young man by the name of John Smith
rushed up stairs and demanded that his honor
be cleared of vivid stain. The Jabwock
had announced that some one by the name Of
John Smith had been sent up for thirty days.
This John Smith wanted it known that he
wasn't the John Smith, or he would bring a
great, big, overgrown libel suit
"Certainly-with pleasure" replied the
editor of the Jabwock. And he wrote that
the John Smith, of Pumpkin Pie avenue, was
not the John Smith who pounded his aged
mother, nor the Smith who stole harness,
nor the Smith arrested for bigamy, nor the
Smith who had prize fight, nor the Smith
who set the saw mill on fire. In fact, he
cleared him of all the crimes and offenses on
the calendar, and the result was that Smith
stopped his paper withdrew his advertising,
ambushed and licked the editor, and was the
means of bankrupting the paper.
MORAL.
There is such thing as being too all fired
anxious to please subscribers Free
Press
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-08-11

While the rest of the country is struggling
with intense heat the philosophers Of Concord
are sitting quietly in the shade, calmly dis
cussing matters of contemporaneous human
interest. "Aristotle," says one of these sages
of the east, "saw the distinction between the
actual complete and the actual eternally
completing. The sense world as it actually
exists is finite but it has virtually an infinite
potentiality by reason of the infinity Of
thought. If infnity is considered as objec'
tive and not subjective, we fall back on q
contradiction" Aristotle had 'em there
Kansas City Times.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-08-11
Boarding House French.

Mrs. A. (who is taking French lessons)-
"Now, Bridget, when Professor Blanque
comes you must say 'entrez to him, and he
will know what you mean and come into the
parlor."
The bell rings and Bridget goes to the door.
1t is the professor.
"Ontario," says Bridget "Will ye walk
into the parlor, SURF"
The professor walked in, and Bridget re-
ported her triumph to the cook.-Harper'i
Bazaar.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-08-11

Mr.. James McEwen, as he was on his
way home in his buggy from fernvaie,
yesterday, saw magnificent rattlesnake
on the roadside on the ridge. He got out
to kill the fellow with a long stick, and
after sharp fight, in which the reptile
struck at him time or two, he was dis
patched, and proved to be three and q
half feet long with eleven rattles and
button. The rattles were brought home
as a trophy.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-08-11
A vicious Stab.

Irate Customer-Won't trust me for
mound of butter9 Won't trust me, eh2 I'll
Pill
Big Grocer-See here, il you want to fight
about it, just off with your coat.
"Oh, well, when it comes to that, hght IN
this store wouldn't be an even thing, you
know"
ooh, it wouldnt|
mo; you've got your butter to back you.
Omaha World.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-08-11

great publishing house of D. Appleton e. Co.
The first enterprise that made the name OF
Croker G. Brewster famous was their publ
cation of SCOTS family Bible in six royal
octave volumes, the first large work ever ster-
eotvped in America. Mr.. Croker acquired q
handsome fortune and was interested in vari-
ous railroads and other public works. Last
year the firm celebrated the seventy-ffth ami
versary Of their meeting, in the office OF Arm
strong, and many men eminent in politics
and literature were present. He leaves twc
sons and daughter.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-08-11

Bin champion Republican, physician
think, msn ought TO saw half a coro OF
wood before breakfast. physicians
business seems to be not only TO look out
for himself but for the undertaken also.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-08-11

When Baby was sick, We gave her Castoria,
When she was . Child, she cried for CastoriA,
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
When she had Children, she gave them CastoriA,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-08-11

Pittsburg Chronicle elegraph-Three
million pounds of feathers are used every
year in America for bedding purposes
At least twenty pounds per annum are
used in sleeping car pillows.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-08-11

The many remarkable cures Hoods sar,
saparilla accomplishes are sufficient proof
that it does possess peculiar curative
powers.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-08-11
MULES AND MUSTANGS.
THEIR WORK AS PACK ANIMALS IN
EARLY CALIFORNIA DAYS.

A Chapter of Reminisc ences of the Days
of the Gold Mining Craze on the Pa
cific Slope-The Business of Packing
Beef.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-08-11

If afflicted with sore eyes use DIR. Isaac
Thorn pson's eye water. Druggists.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-08-11

There is such a thing as being too all fired
anxious to please observation-disclosures Free
Daily Republican., 1887-09-15
Misery Atser Eating

Is avoided by dysoeptios VINO, guided
by the recorded e1perisnce of thou.
sands, begin ard systematically pursue
D course OF Hostetter's Stomach Bit
ters. Persistence In the use OF this
pure and highly accredited g.amscn.c,
Is the sole and agreeable coUdition Ct
the entire removal Of the obstias' G
forms of dyspepsia. no lees than TEN.
porary fit OF indigestion. In cannec
tion with the use OF this specific, iJ is
desirable TO avoid articles of fogd which
Individual experience has shown to be
difficult OF digestion, by the stomach
sought to he benefited. Each dyepep-
tics past observation Of his digestive
capacity should euaola him TO be his
own guide and mentor in this particu.
lar, not trusting to any eet OF dietetic
ruses too general TO be suited to par
ticulsr CAGES. Blliousness an conati.
ps:icn, heartburn wind upon the
stomach, sour eiuctat;ons, Head sci dt
and mertal despondency, are among
the concomitants Of dyspepsia, and We
put 1t to flight by the Bitters.
Daily Republican., 1887-09-15
Dota,

White q Bro. have the best farm I'm.
plements at Front and Orange, and ~
5ilverbrook.
The Board OF Education want propo
sails for glass and glazing for the pubic
schools OF the city for the coming year
Thomas Clark caught q carp In the
Brandy wine, at DuPont's Banks. on
Monday last, which weighed I've pounas
and two oupces.
At . meeting of Troop 3 on Tuesday
| evening Adjutant General X K Ken
ney, Samuel A.. Mscallister and Jopn
p. Donnhoe were elected life mem oer''
Rsv George 3 Kramer Of Brooklyn,
Ny, will preach In the Household o.
Faith Church Il Is evening on the snt'
iecs OF "R,chly Psi"." He wi also
preach next Sunday morning and even
ing In the same cuurcb.
Mary, wife Of John Kelly, the bake
ct New Castle, was taken sick on Sun
day last, and died on Tuesday morning
The iuneral took place this morning .
b O'Clock, when High Mas was ce'e
brated in St. Peters Church.
J.G.. Knowles factcry and also tn
Della ware Iron Works a. New CAstl
closed up Ia order TO give the operative
an opportunity to attend the ceutennia
isplay IN Philadeluhia.
Daily Republican., 1887-09-15
Dsa.h OF . rorner wll.lpgse.lan.

Deash OF Former WliDlDgteaian.
John q. Beach ,ope Of tho most promi-
nent lawyers In New Haven County,
died ut hts residence in New Haven,
Conn Mendnv morning. Mr.. Beach
was born in Nsw Haven In 1919. and
wss the son Of u lawyer. He gradusst
At Ysle In the class Of 80, and after.
wards came 10 this oitf, where he fllled
position as teacher. In 1647 he Was
married 70 q daughter Of the late Hon.
John Wales, the father Of Judge and
DR.. W ales. Some time after his mar.
riAge he returned to New Haven, where
he built mp large practice In the State
aud United 6tates courts, ,and was coup-
sell for several largo corporations. HIS
opinion on questions Of law was largely
90 usht by his brothers In the profes'
sion, be being en- acknowledged author
ity. Yale University conferred on MI
Beach the degree OF l.. l. d. last June
He leaves widow aud four children
two Of his sons being associated with
him In his practice, and the younees
beipg about to enter the Yale Law
q hoOl.
Daily Republican., 1887-09-15
At the Opera House.

On Saturday night Captain JaeK
Crawford, the poet sc0ut, will appear
ut the Opera House ia q frontier rama,
entitled "On The Trail, or Dapiel Boone
the Avenger" he viii be supported
by an excsllent company, In which are
o number of genuine RED men, W no take
part in the play. Captain Crawford Is
q remarkable rlAp, and since the Close
OF the WAL has spent the greater part Of
his time in the far West He is an ex-
perienced Iodisn fighter, and a pre-
nounced temperance man An episode
In His life was published In yesterday , e
REPUBEICAE, which shows that be has
been the means OF doing con6,ders be
good snopg the rough men In whoae
company be has been thrown.
Daily Republican., 1887-09-15
DIED.

COLLINS.-In Chris,iana Hundred, on the
18th int, Peter Collins, aged f6 years.
Relatives and friends are respectfully IN
vited TO attend the funeral from his late
Iesldetcs. on Iburedsy morning, at a. m.
SHEpPAKD.-On Sept. l3, Susan T. Shep-
pard, aged 81 yssre.
Rolltives and ir.enis are respectfully In
vited 10 attend her funeral from the
Union M. +, Church, Fi.th and Washington
streets, on Thursday, the lbtA inst, at / 81
o'eltH lpierment at hiveryisw Cemetery.
FULrOF.-On the 34th inet.. Emily May
caushter of Robert and MARY Jans Full
t9n5aged months and II days.
Relatives and friends of tho family are
respectfully ins tied to attend the funeral
IT ON the residence OF her parents, at Free
fafR uufont's canhs, on Friday afternoon
at O'clock. Intern ent ut Green Hi Gene
terry;
Daily Republican., 1887-09-15
Cspias Tor the Detectives.

Anthony Higgins, Esq attor oey for
jams A. Anderson, had capias is-
sued ~ Pro Monetary Maxwell yester-
day afterneon for the arrest OF Andrew
Randall and john Z Kerr, two OF the
detec,ivss, and Edward u. Murine, OF
the police force OF this city, ca q charge
Of trespass and unlawful ssfe,t. Ran
dali and Murine were taken In custody
aud gave bail Ia the sum oi So COO each
for their appearance Of the coming term
of cGurt. Detective Kerr had left for
Philsdelphis before the cspias was is-
sued, consequently it oould not be serv-
ed ON him. 1t 10 rum mored that other
cults OF like nature will be instituted, ,
and that S,road and File have instruct
ed their attorney 10 bring an action
against Superintendent Stark for break
log open their safe.